What's the difference between knob and nob?

Knob


Definition:

  • (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
  • (n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.
  • (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
  • (n.) See Knop.
  • (v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
  • (2) The histochemical study of the LDH in the Trout embryo during the early organogenesis shows a specific localization in notochord cells, in mesodermic cells of the terminal knob and in some prosencephalic neuroblasts.
  • (3) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
  • (4) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (5) As with established cell lines, formation of zeiotic knobs at the isolated Type 1 cell surface appeared closely related to microfilamentous nets located beneath the plasmalemma.
  • (6) The isolated cells have an ovoid soma, a dendrite of variable length which terminates in a cilia-bearing knob and an axon, also of variable length.
  • (7) In addition, some reacted with either knob protrusions or caveolae of the host erythrocyte membrane; one reacted with a parasite-derived antigen present in the erythrocyte cytoplasm.
  • (8) "It might be that you think it's just a knob on the front panel, but maybe installing it requires you disassemble the front panel, and actually you need a mechanic to come and fit it," argues Rowley.
  • (9) wt from 80 to 95 kd in different knob-producing isolates of P. falciparum and is absent in knobless variants.
  • (10) To investigate environmental influences on the development of the olfactory epithelium, semi-thin sections were taken from the nasal septum of newborn and 30-day-old rabbits; the epithelial thickness and the number of olfactory knobs, supporting cells, dark basal cells, and receptor cells were compared.
  • (11) The spores of Rif-18 are pleomorphic and frequently exhibit terminal knobs.
  • (12) To investigate the involvement of actin filaments in concanavalin A (Con A)-induced cap formation and cytochalasin B (CB)-induced zeiotic knob migration, the distribution of F-actin was studied in Con A-treated and CB-treated Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC) by fluorescence microscopy using heavy meromyosin conjugated with a fluorescent dye, N-(7-dimethylamino-4-methylcoumarinyl) maleimide, (DACM-HMM).
  • (13) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
  • (14) Knobs which appear on the membrane of the infected erythrocytes adhere to the endothelium, causing the obstruction of cerebral microvessels.
  • (15) Cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes in vivo is associated with the presence of knobs on the erythrocyte surface, but we and others have shown recently that cytoadherence to C32 melanoma cells may occur in vitro in the absence of knobs.
  • (16) Systemic administration of the anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin blocked vascular leakage due to endothelial gap formation but had little or no effect on trophoblast knob penetration of vessels.
  • (17) After crossectomy which remains the most important stage, a short stripping is performed in an upward direction, substituting a packing for the olive shaped knob normally used.
  • (18) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
  • (19) Six culture-adapted knob-positive Plasmodium falciparum parasites, four of which were nonbinding in an in vitro cytoadherence assay, were tested for the presence of the knob-associated histidine-rich protein PfHRP1.
  • (20) Instead, there were free and spiral nerve terminals in the interstitium, and epilemmal knob-like or bouton-like endings surrounding non-encapsulated muscle fibers.

Nob


Definition:

  • (n.) The head.
  • (n.) A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Interaction of PUFA and 2-NOF or NOB yielded MDA, the amounts of which were significantly greater when 24-h anaerobic preceded 1-6-h aerobic incubation.
  • (2) The NOB-1 assay is probably more specific with respect to IL-1 measurement, although, with a high intra-assay variance.
  • (3) Anaerobic incubation of NOB or 2-NOF with linolenic acid at the molar ratio of 1:1 for 24 h yielded approximately 5.5-13% of the PUFA as conjugated diene which appeared stable upon exposure to air.
  • (4) We examined fasting lipid, lipoprotein, sex hormone and insulin levels in 38 women (21 obese (ob), 17 non-obese (nob] with HA and anovulation (PCO) and 38 normal ovulatory women (21 obese, 17 non-obese), matched for age and weight.
  • (5) Nitrosobenzene (NOB) formed acid labile conjugates with reduced glutathione (GSH) and hemoglobin within red cells.
  • (6) To evaluate the efficacy and safety of NOB in ragweed seasonal allergic rhinitis, 250 eligible patients were randomized to one of four parallel, double-blind treatment groups: NOB, 10, 20, and 30 mg, or placebo, each administered once daily for 3 weeks.
  • (7) On the other hand, glycophorin A had essentially no effect on IL-1-mediated stimulation of the IL-1-sensitive thymocyte cell line EL-4 NOB-1.
  • (8) NOB-1 is not responsive to tumour necrosis factor alpha, tumour necrosis factor beta, interferon gamma and lipopolysaccharide.
  • (9) He told me sadly of two youths who had said they did not go to the theatre because: “That’s not for us, it’s for the nobs.” The Labour party and the unions had emancipated the working class economically, but what had they done to show the worker that he ought to take his share of the nation’s cultural life, that everyone was a “nob” in the theatre?
  • (10) Receptor-bound 125I-IL 1 alpha was displaced with equal efficiency by both unlabelled forms from 3T3 cells, but a 20-fold lower affinity for p1L1 beta was observed using NOB-1.
  • (11) This reaction was reversible because nearly all NOB could be extracted with ether from the labile intermediate.
  • (12) NOB treatment did not appear to cause weight gain or sedation.
  • (13) Daft Punk themselves are in a separate DJ booth twiddling with nobs that surely don't do anything.
  • (14) As I hob-nobbed with friends, family and the invited guests of the RI at the drinks reception beforehand, my mind kept flitting back to my notes.
  • (15) The neutralizing capacity and the specificity of the IL-1 antisera were tested by the use of the thymoma EL-4 NOB-1 cell line.
  • (16) Photograph: The Guardian Before marching, the protesters gathered for a potluck on a warm afternoon in Huntington Park, at the top of the tony Nob Hill neighborhood and the epicenter of old town San Francisco.
  • (17) rIL-1 beta induced the production of IL-2 and IL-6 from EL-4-NOB-1 cells in a dose-related manner.
  • (18) Furthermore, the differences in the amounts of MDA resulting from 24- and 0-h anaerobic incubations were significantly greater when the molar ratio of 2-NOF (or NOB) to PUFA was increased (2.0 greater than 1.0 greater than 0.5).
  • (19) Once-daily NOB, 10, 20, and 30 mg, is equally and highly effective and safe in the symptomatic management of seasonal allergic rhinitis compared to placebo.
  • (20) Using the murine T-lymphocyte line NOB-1, human thyrocytes and human foreskin fibroblasts, the antibodies competitively inhibited the biological activity of human recombinant IL-1 alpha (rIL-1 alpha).

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